The NI4OS-Europe pre-production environment is moving forward to its production phase. Several crucial services have been added in previous months to the pre-production environment, in order to enable it to perform the federated core functionalities for the regional services, on their path to be on-boarded to EOSC. AAI, wiki, the service catalogue management system, as well as the training and webinar platform, are some examples of these services that are operational thanks to the NI4OS-Europe partners hosting them. The pre-production environment is extended on a weekly basis with new services and it is expected to be completed within April.
In parallel with the technical effort, a lot of policy making and organizational activities are taking place to enable the on-boarding of the regional resources into EOSC to run smoothly for the participating partners. The rules of participation and other related policies are described in the NI4OS-Europe Deliverable on “Best practices for on-boarding and related policies”. Moreover, these general procedures and policies are enhanced and detailed in the Deliverable D5.1. Resources will be categorized using various metrics, such as TRL, organizational readiness regarding ITSM, as well as integration level with the pre-production environment. Based on these metrics, a timeline for the integration and on-boarding of the resources from the partnering countries will be proposed and followed throughout the project lifetime.
In parallel with the technical effort, a lot of policy making and organizational activities are taking place to enable the on-boarding of the regional resources into EOSC to run smoothly for the participating partners. The rules of participation and other related policies are described in the NI4OS-Europe Deliverable on “Best practices for on-boarding and related policies”. Resources will be categorized using various metrics, such as TRL, organizational readiness regarding ITSM, as well as integration level with the pre-production environment. Based on these metrics, a timeline for the integration and on-boarding of the resources from the partnering countries will be proposed and followed throughout the project lifetime.